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2001by Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 1568494173 (1-56849-417-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Aesop's Fablesby Aesop, Stanley Alexander Handford, Brian RobbISBN 0140369848 (0-14-036984-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:Scores of entertaining and instructive tales delightfully illustrated include "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Ant and the Grasshopper," "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," "The Crow and the Pitcher," "The Fox and the Stork," "The Hare and the Tortoise," and many more. 35 illustrations.[via]More editions of Aesop's Fables:
- Aesop's Fables: ISBN 0192840509 (0-19-284050-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Aesop's Fables: ISBN 0486280209 (0-486-28020-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Aesop's Fables: ISBN 0448060035 (0-448-06003-5)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - Aesop's Fables: ISBN 0460050494 (0-460-05049-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Aesop's Fables: ISBN 0448169681 (0-448-16968-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Aesop's Fables: ISBN 0804900817 (0-8049-0081-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Aesop's Fables: ISBN 0671087584 (0-671-08758-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Aesop's Fables: ISBN 0140369848 (0-14-036984-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Aesop's Fables: ISBN 0192840509 (0-19-284050-9)
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Aesop's Fablesby Anne Gatti, Safaya Salter, AesopISBN 0152003509 (0-15-200350-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:Intricate full-color artwork inspired by Persian miniatures highlights an anthology of fifty-eight of Aesop's moral tales--including both well-known and less-familiar fables. [via]
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Aesop's Fablesby Arthur Rackham, AesopISBN 0517171988 (0-517-17198-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:Arthur Rackham's well-known illustrations enter print once again in this handsome new edition of classic fables. [via]
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Aesop's Fablesby Charles Santore, AesopISBN 051712212X (0-517-12212-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:An illustrated collection of traditional moral tales from the Greek slave Aesop. [via]
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Aesop's Fablesby Zipes, Jack David (AFT), Aesop, Jack David Zipes, Sam PickeringISBN 0451529537 (0-451-52953-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:[via]203 of Aesop's most enduring and popular fables, translated into readable, modern American English and beautifully illustrated with 50 classic woodcuts by the great French artist J.J. Grandville.
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Aesop's Fablesby Jack ZipesISBN 0451525655 (0-451-52565-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Aesop's Fablesby Michael Hague, AesopISBN 0805063153 (0-8050-6315-3)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:"Please, O King," cried the Mouse, "spare me this time and I shall never forget your kindness. Someday I may be able to repay you." The Lion was so amused by this idea that he let the poor creature go.[via]
In sixth-century Greece, it is said, there lived a slave named Aesop who was renowned for his brilliant storytelling. The collection of sly, witty fables that bears his name continues to delight readers of all ages. Michael Hague has selected his favorite fables and illustrated them with beautiful paintings in the style that has made his work so popular.More editions of Aesop's Fables:
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Aesop's Fablesby V. S. Vernon Jones, AesopISBN 014600096X (0-14-600096-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
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Aesop's Fables : Illustrated Stories Collectionby Random House Value Publishing Staff, AesopISBN 0517204223 (0-517-20422-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables : Illustrated Stories Collection'Book summary:An illustrated collection of traditional moral tales from the Greek slave Aesop. [via]
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Aesop's Fables : Santore Editionby Aesop, Charles SantoreISBN 0517641151 (0-517-64115-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables : Santore Edition'Book summary:Here are the time-honored fables of Aesop as never seen before. Santore's animals leap off the page in explosions of color, giving messages to ponder and physical beauty to savor. School Library Journal called this interpretation of the classic morality tales " a delight to the eye and ear." [via]
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The Classic Treasury of Aesop's Fablesby Aesop, Don DailyISBN 0762404132 (0-7624-0413-2)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Classic Treasury of Aesop's Fables'Book summary:A timeless collection of twenty of Aesop's best-loved fables--punctuated by the age-old morals that have instructed countless generations. Accompanied by beautiful, full-color illustrations from award-winning artist Don Daily, this volume highlights such fables as "The Goose Who Laid the Golden Eggs," "The Mouse and the Frog," and the one and only "The Tortoise and the Hare."[via]More editions of The Classic Treasury of Aesop's Fables:
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The Complete Fablesby Aesop, Robert Temple, Olivia TempleISBN 0140446494 (0-14-044649-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fables'Book summary:[via]'Many people are not in the least disturbed at the harm that befalls them, provided they can see their enemies downfall first
In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. Here we see a wily fox outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock him. Each jewel-like fable provides a warning about the consequences of wrong-doing, as well as offering a glimpse into the everyday lives of Ancient Greeks.
This definitive edition is the first translation into English of the entire corpus of 358 unbowdlerized fables. It is fully annotated, with an introduction that rescues the fables from a tradition of moralistic interpretation.
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Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carrollby Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Edward GuilianoISBN 051738566X (0-517-38566-X)
Hardcover, Avenel Books
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Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carrollby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517371553 (0-517-37155-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Complete Worksby Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Alexander WoollcottISBN 0394716612 (0-394-71661-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works'Book summary:This is a carefully edited text of the writer's chief work and selections from his lesser writings and letters without which it would be impossible to form a picture of his life's work and genius. [via]
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The Complete Works of Lewis Carrollby Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Alexander WoollcottISBN 0140105425 (0-14-010542-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Complete Works of Lewis Carrollby John TennielISBN 0370005074 (0-370-00507-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Domus Anguli Puensisby Alan Alexander MilneISBN 0416194907 (0-416-19490-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0451528956 (0-451-52895-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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El Dadorby Lois Lowry, Maria Luisa BalseiroISBN 8424159535 (84-241-5953-5)
Softcover, Everest De Ediciones Y distribucion
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Dador'Book summary:Así se describe el incierto futuro de un nino que habita un mundo supuestamente ideal: sin conflictos, pobreza, desempleo. divorcio. injusticia ni desigualdades. Una sociedad en la que los valores de familia son de máxima importancia, la rebelión juvenil es algo desconocido y la educación es casi una forma de vida. Contado con una sencillez que engana, esta es la provocativa historia de un nino que experimenta algo increíble y emprende algo imposible. Este libro cuestiona todos los valores que siempre hemos dado por supuestos y vuelve a examinar nuestras creencias mas profundas. Diciembre es le mes en el que se celebre la Ceremonia anual, en el que los Doce reciben sus asignaciones vitalicias determinadas por el Comité de Ancianos. Pero Jonas, un nino que cumple sus doce anos, ha sido elegido para algo muy especial. Cuando su selecciona le lleva ante el mas honorable de los Ancianos - el Dador -, Jonas comienza a darse cuenta de los oscuros secretos que subyacen bajo la frágil perfección de su mundo. [via]
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Fablesby Aesop, Roger L'EstrangeISBN 0679417907 (0-679-41790-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fables'Book summary:Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The eternally entertaining tales attributed to himin which the fates of sly foxes, wicked wolves, industrious ants, and others, suggest what our own behaviors should (or should not) behave been universal "best-sellers" since before L'Estrange's definitive 1692 English translation. Gooden's superb engravings were first published in 1936 in a limited edition. [via]
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Fables from Aesopby Tom Lynch, AesopISBN 0670889482 (0-670-88948-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fables from Aesop'Book summary:From century to century, generation to generation, Aesop's fables have entertained, enlightened minds, and warmed hearts around the world. Now in this unique collection, Tom Lynch uses collages of vivid color, intriguing texture and folk art style to re-invent fourteen of these well known and loved fables for today's children.
The crisp retellings of Aesop's tales and the beauty of Tom Lynch's illustrations will encourage readers to look closely before they leap from one fable to the next. [via]More editions of Fables from Aesop:
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The Fables of Aesopby Aesop, Joseph JacobsISBN 0486418596 (0-486-41859-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fables of Aesop'Book summary:A collection of more than three hundred classic children's fables includes ""The Lion and the Mouse,"" ""The Dog in the Manger,"" and ""The Tortoise and the Hare,"" and is accompanied by twenty-three paintings and line drawings. [via]
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The Fables of Aesopby Ruth SpriggsISBN 0528820702 (0-528-82070-2)
Hardcover, Checkerboard Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fables of Aesop'Book summary:Retells 143 of Aesop's fables whose morals reflect virtues such as honesty, truth, goodness, and respect. [via]
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Fables of Aesop : Ccsby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517491974 (0-517-49197-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Hans Brinkerby Mary Mapes DodgeISBN 0486428427 (0-486-42842-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Brinker'Book summary:Set against a backdrop of frozen canals in a winter wonderland, the year's most exciting event in a little Dutch village is about to take place. But will Hans Brinker and his sister Gretel, with their hand-carved wooden skates, be able to compete against their well-trained young friends who own fine steel blades?[via]More editions of Hans Brinker:
- Hans Brinker: ISBN 0448060116 (0-448-06011-6)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley - Hans Brinker: ISBN 0684138123 (0-684-13812-3)
Softcover, Scribner - Hans Brinker: ISBN 0529050250 (0-529-05025-0)
Hardcover, Collins + World - Hans Brinker: ISBN 0529050269 (0-529-05026-9)
Hardcover, Collins + World - Hans Brinker: ISBN 0486428427 (0-486-42842-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
- Hans Brinker: ISBN 0448060116 (0-448-06011-6)
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Hans Brinker or the Silver Skatesby Mary Mapes DodgeISBN 0689849095 (0-689-84909-5)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates'Book summary:A Dutch boy and girl work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates. [via]
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- Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: ISBN 080490099X (0-8049-0099-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: ISBN 0060536578 (0-06-053657-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: ISBN 014035042X (0-14-035042-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: ISBN 0440434467 (0-440-43446-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: ISBN 0451520203 (0-451-52020-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: ISBN 0590412957 (0-590-41295-7)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: ISBN 0517687984 (0-517-68798-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: ISBN 0684208008 (0-684-20800-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: ISBN 0689849095 (0-689-84909-5)
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- Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: ISBN 080490099X (0-8049-0099-X)
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunterby Carson McCullersISBN 0618526412 (0-618-52641-2)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'Book summary:When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, Some with sex or drink, and some -- like Mick -- with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.
From the Paperback edition. [via]More editions of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter:
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: ISBN 0679424741 (0-679-42474-1)
Hardcover, Modern Library - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: ISBN 0553239112 (0-553-23911-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: ISBN 0553269631 (0-553-26963-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: ISBN 0618084746 (0-618-08474-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: ISBN 0395079780 (0-395-07978-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: ISBN 0783887736 (0-7838-8773-6)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: ISBN 0618526412 (0-618-52641-2)
Softcover, Mariner Books
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: ISBN 0679424741 (0-679-42474-1)
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The House at Pooh Corner: Library Editionby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0140361227 (0-14-036122-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House at Pooh Corner: Library Edition'Book summary:"The House at Pooh Corner" is the second of only two storybooks written by A.A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh, the most famous bear in the world. In its pages, the reader is reunited with Pooh, Christopher Robin and all the familiar characters from "Hundred Acre Wood". Join the friends as they build a house for Eeyore, invent the noble game of Poohsticks and investigate the knotty question of what Tiggers like to eat. Delicate colourings of E. H. Shepard's beloved illustrations are complemented by an exquisite jacket design, making this prestige edition a must-have for Pooh collectors and all lovers of beautiful books. [via]
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- The House at Pooh Corner: Library Edition: ISBN 0416789005 (0-416-78900-5)
Hardcover, Methuen Children - The House at Pooh Corner: Library Edition: ISBN 0525444440 (0-525-44444-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - The House at Pooh Corner: Library Edition: ISBN 0440437954 (0-440-43795-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The House at Pooh Corner: ISBN 0525447741 (0-525-44774-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - The House at Pooh Corner: ISBN 0525467580 (0-525-46758-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - The House at Pooh Corner: Library Edition: ISBN 0140361227 (0-14-036122-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- The House at Pooh Corner: Library Edition: ISBN 0416789005 (0-416-78900-5)
The House at Pooh Corner/Pop-Up Bookby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525442456 (0-525-44245-6)
Hardcover, Dutton Childrens Books
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Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 0517147815 (0-517-14781-5)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snark'Book summary:This beautiful, 868-page leather-bound volume contains a delightful collection of stories from one of history's most beloved children's authors. Lewis Carroll's stories are still as fresh and appealing as when they were first published more than a century ago. John Tenniel's original illustrations accompany the Alice stories and bring to life the wildly popular characters so well known to us all: the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and a passel of others.
Carroll, one of 11 children, knows his audience well. His stories--clever, provocative, and bizarre--capture the imaginations of children worldwide. Though a prolific storyteller from childhood, he went on to become a mathematician, a fact evidenced by the Tangled Tales serial, which contains a mathematical equation in each installment.
Other stories included in this collection are "The Hunting of the Snark," which was composed backward, in a sense, when inspiration for the tale came by way of the last line; "Rhyme? And Reason?"; the Sylvie and Bruno books; and the original Alice story, "Alice's Adventures Underground," penned and illustrated in Carroll's own hand. Two never-before-printed poems, originally inscribed in two storybooks and presented as mementos to a little girl and boy, conclude this enchanting collection. [via]
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Light in Augustby William FaulknerISBN 007553648X (0-07-553648-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Light in August'Book summary:"Read, read, read. Read everything-trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window." -William Faulkner Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry. [via]
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- Light in August: ISBN 0679732268 (0-679-73226-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Light in August: ISBN 067964248X (0-679-64248-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Light in August: ISBN 0394747437 (0-394-74743-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books - Light in August: ISBN 0394600886 (0-394-60088-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Light in August: ISBN 007553648X (0-07-553648-X)
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- Light in August: ISBN 0679732268 (0-679-73226-8)
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The Metamorphosis and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Malcolm PasleyISBN 0140283366 (0-14-028336-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphosis and Other Stories'Book summary:Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity, anxiety, and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story - considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work - plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories/the Great Short Works of Franz Kafkaby Franz Kafka, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0684194260 (0-684-19426-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0684800705 (0-684-80070-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories'Book summary:A collection of the author's prose poems, sketches, stories, and allegories includes the three-act novelette "The Metamorphosis" and a special translation of "The Penal Colony" Reprint. 15,000 first printing. [via]
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Native Sonby WrightISBN 156849694X (1-56849-694-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Native Son'Book summary:Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension. As a young black man in the Chicago of the '30s, he has no way out of the walls of poverty and racism that surround him, and after he murders a young white woman in a moment of panic, these walls begin to close in. There is no help for him--not from his hapless family; not from liberal do-gooders or from his well-meaning yet naive friend Jan; certainly not from the police, prosecutors, or judges. Bigger is debased, aggressive, dangerous, and a violent criminal. As such, he has no claim upon our compassion or sympathy. And yet...
A more compelling story than Native Son has not been written in the 20th century by an American writer. That is not to say that Richard Wright created a novel free of flaws, but that he wrote the first novel that successfully told the most painful and unvarnished truth about American social and class relations. As Irving Howe asserted in 1963, "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture."
Other books had focused on the experience of growing up black in America--including Wright's own highly successful Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of five stories that focused on the victimization of blacks who transgressed the code of racial segregation. But they suffered from what he saw as a kind of lyrical idealism, setting up sympathetic black characters in oppressive situations and evoking the reader's pity. In Native Son, Wright was aiming at something more. In Bigger, he created a character so damaged by racism and poverty, with dreams so perverted, and with human sensibilities so eroded, that he has no claim on the reader's compassion:
"I didn't want to kill," Bigger shouted. "But what I killed for, I am! It must've been pretty deep in me to make me kill! I must have felt it awful hard to murder.... What I killed for must've been good!" Bigger's voice was full of frenzied anguish. "It must have been good! When a man kills, it's for something... I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em. It's the truth..."
Wright's genius was that, in preventing us from feeling pity for Bigger, he forced us to confront the hopelessness, misery, and injustice of the society that gave birth to him. --Andrew Himes [via]More editions of Native Son:
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North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Patricia InghamISBN 0140434240 (0-14-043424-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In "North and South", Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature. [via]
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North and Southby Alan Shelston, Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN 0393979083 (0-393-97908-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskells place in the company of Victorian Englands finest novelists.
This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts" includes contemporary reviews and correspondence related to North and South, along with the full text of Gaskells 1850 short story "Lizzie Leigh," which, like North and South, is set in industrial Manchester and deals with strong working women. This topic is further addressed in Bessie Rayner Parkess essay on Victorian working women. "Criticism" collects eleven assessments of the novel, among them Louis Cazamians 1904 study of industrial fiction and Hilary Schors recent study of North and South in the context of discourse analysis. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of North and South:
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North and Southby Angus Easson, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sally ShuttleworthISBN 0192831941 (0-19-283194-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:Mary Gaskell's North and South examines the nature of social authority and obedience and provides an insightful description of the role of middle class women in nineteenth century society. Through the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skillfully explores issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers conflicts with her growing attraction to the mill owner, John Thornton. This new and revised expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate. [via]
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North and Southby Elizabeth Gaskell, Jenny UglowISBN 0460872575 (0-460-87257-5)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series, which includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the author, a plot summary and selected criticism. This is a novel of hardship, passion and hard-won wisdom among the conflicts of the Industrial Revolution. [via]
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Richard Wright's Native Sonby Harold BloomISBN 1555460550 (1-55546-055-0)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Richard Wright's Native Son'Book summary:Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension. As a young black man in the Chicago of the '30s, he has no way out of the walls of poverty and racism that surround him, and after he murders a young white woman in a moment of panic, these walls begin to close in. There is no help for him--not from his hapless family; not from liberal do-gooders or from his well-meaning yet naive friend Jan; certainly not from the police, prosecutors, or judges. Bigger is debased, aggressive, dangerous, and a violent criminal. As such, he has no claim upon our compassion or sympathy. And yet...
A more compelling story than Native Son has not been written in the 20th century by an American writer. That is not to say that Richard Wright created a novel free of flaws, but that he wrote the first novel that successfully told the most painful and unvarnished truth about American social and class relations. As Irving Howe asserted in 1963, "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture."
Other books had focused on the experience of growing up black in America--including Wright's own highly successful Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of five stories that focused on the victimization of blacks who transgressed the code of racial segregation. But they suffered from what he saw as a kind of lyrical idealism, setting up sympathetic black characters in oppressive situations and evoking the reader's pity. In Native Son, Wright was aiming at something more. In Bigger, he created a character so damaged by racism and poverty, with dreams so perverted, and with human sensibilities so eroded, that he has no claim on the reader's compassion:
"I didn't want to kill," Bigger shouted. "But what I killed for, I am! It must've been pretty deep in me to make me kill! I must have felt it awful hard to murder.... What I killed for must've been good!" Bigger's voice was full of frenzied anguish. "It must have been good! When a man kills, it's for something... I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em. It's the truth..."
Wright's genius was that, in preventing us from feeling pity for Bigger, he forced us to confront the hopelessness, misery, and injustice of the society that gave birth to him. --Andrew Himes [via]More editions of Richard Wright's Native Son:
Rilla of Inglesideby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1419144987 (1-4191-4498-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rilla of Ingleside'Book summary:This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert MighallISBN 0141439734 (0-14-143973-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote "Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde" as a "chilling shocker." He then burned the draft and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, "Jekyll And Hyde" is a brilliantly original study of man's dual nature -- as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror. Published in 1866, "Jekyll And Hyde" was an instant success and brought Stevenson his first taste of fame. Though sometimes dismissed as a mere mystery story, the book has evoked much literary admirations. Vladimir Nabokov likened it to "Madame Bovary" and "Dead Souls" as "a fable that lies nearer to poetry than to ordinary prose fiction." [via]
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- The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories: ISBN 0140431179 (0-14-043117-9)
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Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0460877925 (0-460-87792-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0141439734 (0-14-143973-4)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terrorby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0140439110 (0-14-043911-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror'Book summary:Contains: 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', The 'The Body Snatcher', and 'Olalla' Stevenson's story is one of the most famous works of horror fiction of all time and the names of Jekyll and Hyde have become synonymous with the idea of the split personality. As an exploration of the human potential for evil and bestiality, the story is very much a product of its time and this new edition reveals the scientific and literary context of Stevenson's work. 'The Body Snatcher' is charts the murky underside of Victorian medical practice and 'Olalla' is a tale of vampirism and 'the beast within' with a beautiful woman at its centre. [via]
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The Transformation and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Malcolm PasleyISBN 0140184783 (0-14-018478-3)
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A companion volume to The Great Wall of China and Other Short Works, these new translations bring together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. This volume contains his most famous story. The Transformation, more popularly known as Metamorphosis. Other works include Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; and A Fasting Artist, a collection of stories written towards the end of Kafka's life. There is also a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eye-witness account of an air display in 1909. Taken together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.More editions of The Transformation and Other Stories:
William Faulkner's Light in Augustby Leslie A. JuhaszISBN 0671006665 (0-671-00666-5)
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2001 Una Odisea Espacial / 2001. A Space Odysseyby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 8497599292 (84-9759-929-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: '2001 Una Odisea Espacial / 2001. A Space Odyssey'Book summary:Una expedición a los confines del universo y a los del alma, en la que pasado, presente y futuro se amalgaman en un continuo enigmático. ¿Qué esencia última nos rige? ¿Qué lugar ocupa el hombre en el complejo entramado del infinito? ¿Qué es el tiempo, la vida, la muerte? Una grandiosa novela de dimensiones épicas cuyo amplio abanico de interpretaciones ofrece una visión totalizadora. Arthur C.Clarke colaboró estrechamente con Stanley Kubrick en la producción de la célebre película homónima. [via]
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Una Odisea Espacial 2001, Usa/2001: A Space Odysseyby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 8434580926 (84-345-8092-6)
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Winnie Ille Pu Semper Ludetby A. A. Milne, Brian StaplesISBN 0525460918 (0-525-46091-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winnie Ille Pu Semper Ludet'Book summary:The enchanting tales of Pooh and his friends were first brought to readers in classic Latin form in 1960 with the publication of Winnie Ille Pu. It remains the only book in Latin ever to grace The New York Times List. Now Winnie Ille Pu Semper Ludet is available as a companion volume. Perfect for the novice as well as the Latin scholar, Brian Staples' translation proves once again that Latin is not a dead language. And Pooh, as everyone knows, will live forever. [via]
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