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8 Cousinsby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0316030910 (0-316-03091-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Aeneid of Virgil Books: One to Sixby Publius Vergilius Maro, R.D. WilliamsISBN 0312847351 (0-312-84735-1)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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After Ovid: New Metamorphosesby Michael Hofmann, James LasdunISBN 0374524785 (0-374-52478-5)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 0375753206 (0-375-75320-6)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was soon privy to this most perfect match, a union of families and circumstances cemented by affection. Enter Countess Olenska, a woman of quick wit sharpened by experience, not afraid to flout convention and determined to find freedom in divorce. Against his judgment, Newland is drawn to the socially ostracized Ellen Olenska, who opens his eyes and has the power to make him feel. He knows that in sweet-tempered May, he can expect stability and the steadying comfort of duty. But what new worlds could he discover with Ellen? Written with elegance and wry precision, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is a tragic love story and a powerful homily about the perils of a perfect marriage. Commentary by William Lyon Phelps and E. M. Forster [via]
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Anne Green GablesISBN 0340715006 (0-340-71500-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square Books
Find This BookBook summary:A brother and sister send for a boy to help them on their farm, Green Gables. By mistake they are sent an 11-year-old girl. She picks a fight with anyone who mentions the colour of her hair and causes havoc, but ends up being loved. The author wrote "Anne of Avonlea" and "Anne of Ingleside". [via]
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Anne of Green GablesISBN 0333593359 (0-333-59335-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
Find This BookBook summary:When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nightsby Richard Francis Burton, A. S. ByattISBN 0375756752 (0-375-75675-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights'Book summary:Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.
This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]More editions of The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights:
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As I Lay Dyingby William FaulknerISBN 0375504524 (0-375-50452-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Bacchae of Euripidesby C.K. WilliamsISBN 0374522065 (0-374-52206-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Versionby Euripides, C.K. WilliamsISBN 0374107947 (0-374-10794-7)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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Beowulf: An Illustrated Editionby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374111197 (0-374-11119-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition'Book summary:In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our imagination has been less secure. In the introduction to his translation, Seamus Heaney argues that Beowulf's role as a required text for many English students obscured its mysteries and "mythic potency." Now, thanks to the Irish poet's marvelous recreation (in both senses of the word) under Alfred David's watch, this dark, doom-ridden work gets its day in the sun.
There are endless pleasures in Heaney's analysis, but readers should head straight for the poem and then to the prose. (Some will also take advantage of the dual-language edition and do some linguistic teasing out of their own.) The epic's outlines seem simple, depicting Beowulf's three key battles with the scaliest brutes in all of art: Grendel, Grendel's mother (who's in a suitably monstrous snit after her son's dismemberment and death), and then, 50 years later, a gold-hoarding dragon "threatening the night sky / with streamers of fire." Along the way, however, we are treated to flashes back and forward and to a world view in which a thane's allegiance to his lord and to God is absolute. In the first fight, the man from Geatland must travel to Denmark to take on the "shadow-stalker" terrorizing Heorot Hall. Here Beowulf and company set sail:
Men climbed eagerly up the gangplank,
After a fearsome night victory over march-haunting and heath-marauding Grendel, our high-born hero is suitably strewn with gold and praise, the queen declaring: "Your sway is wide as the wind's home, / as the sea around cliffs." Few will disagree. And remember, Beowulf has two more trials to undergo.
sand churned in the surf, warriors loaded
a cargo of weapons, shining war-gear
in the vessel's hold, then heaved out,
away with a will in their wood-wreathed ship.
Over the waves, with the wind behind her
and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird...Heaney claims that when he began his translation it all too often seemed "like trying to bring down a megalith with a toy hammer." The poem's challenges are many: its strong four-stress line, heavy alliteration, and profusion of kennings could have been daunting. (The sea is, among other things, "the whale-road," the sun is "the world's candle," and Beowulf's third opponent is a "vile sky-winger." When it came to over-the-top compound phrases, the temptations must have been endless, but for the most part, Heaney smiles, he "called a sword a sword.") Yet there are few signs of effort in the poet's Englishing. Heaney varies his lines with ease, offering up stirring dialogue, action, and description while not stinting on the epic's mix of fate and fear. After Grendel's misbegotten mother comes to call, the king's evocation of her haunted home may strike dread into the hearts of men and beasts, but it's a gift to the reader:
A few miles from here
In Heaney's hands, the poem's apparent archaisms and Anglo-Saxon attitudes--its formality, blood-feuds, and insane courage--turn the art of an ancient island nation into world literature. --Kerry Fried [via]
a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch
above a mere; the overhanging bank
is a maze of tree-roots mirrored in its surface.
At night there, something uncanny happens:
the water burns. And the mere bottom
has never been sounded by the sons of men.
On its bank, the heather-stepper halts:
the hart in flight from pursuing hounds
will turn to face them with firm-set horns
and die in the wood rather than dive
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The Bhagavad Gitaby Eknath EaswaranISBN 0375705554 (0-375-70555-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:Prince Arjuna faced a dilemma that many face sooner or later--whether or not to take action that is necessary yet morally ambiguous. The difference is that Arjuna's action was to wage war against his own family. With the armies arrayed, Arjuna loses his nerve. Krishna, his charioteer and incarnation of divine consciousness, begins to teach him the nature of God and of himself, that Arjuna can attain liberation through union with God, and that there are several available paths. And so the most famous and revered of all Hindu scriptures goes on to teach the paths of knowledge, of devotion, of action, and of meditation, becoming the seed for all the Hindu systems of philosophy and religion that followed. For all of its profundity, Eknath Easwaran manages to translate the Gita in easy prose that neither panders nor obscures. Coupled with his thorough introduction, Easwaran's version comes off on all the levels it should: as a guide to action, as devotional scripture, as a philosophical text, and as inspirational reading. So what does Arjuna finally do? He follows his dharma, of course, as we all must. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0374528373 (0-374-52837-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigoneby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374530076 (0-374-53007-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone'Book summary:Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides of the battle. When Creon, king of Thebes, grants burial of one but not the "treacherous" other, Antigone defies his order, believing it her duty to bury all of her close kin. Enraged, Creon condemns her to death, and his soldiers wall her up in a tomb. While Creon eventually agrees to Antigone's release, it is too late: She takes her own life, initiating a tragic repetition of events in her family's history.[via]
In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch.More editions of The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone:
The Children of Llyrby Evangeline WaltonISBN 0345277384 (0-345-27738-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A Clockwork Orange: Play with Musicby Anthony BurgessISBN 0345354435 (0-345-35443-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Clockwork Orange: Play with Music'Book summary:"Penguin Decades" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange" was published in 1962 and has been controversial ever since. It tells the story of fifteen-year-old Alex - whose chief preoccupations are Beethoven's Ninth and ultra-violence - as he and his droogs rampage though a dystopian future seeking thrills, until they come under the control of the state's sinister apparatus. [via]
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Complete Works of Lewis Carrollby John TennielISBN 0370005074 (0-370-00507-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Eclogues of Virgil: A Translationby Virgil, David FerryISBN 0374146349 (0-374-14634-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hillby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0316030864 (0-316-03086-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hill'Book summary:Rose Campbell, tired and ill, has come to live at "The Aunt Hill" after the death of her beloved father. Six aunts fussing and fretting over her are bad enough, but what is a quiet 13-year-old girl to do with seven boisterous boy cousins? [via]
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A Farewell to Armsby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0317562185 (0-317-56218-5)
Softcover, Ingram Book Co
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Fellowship of the Ringby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345339703 (0-345-33970-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fellowship of the Ring'Book summary:The prequel to The Lord of the Rings- The Hobbit- is now a major motion picture directed by Peter Jackson THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME The dark, fearsome Ringwraiths are searching for a Hobbit. Frodo Baggins knows that they are seeking him and the Ring he bears-the Ring of Power that will enable evil Sauron to destroy all that is good in Middle-earth. Now it is up to Frodo and his faithful servant, Sam, with a small band of companions, to carry the Ring to the one place it can be destroyed: Mount Doom, in the very center of Sauron's realm. Thus begins J.R.R. Tolkien's classic The Lord of the Rings, which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King . [via]
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The French Connection: The World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigationby Robin MooreISBN 0340106271 (0-340-10627-1)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Christopher FoxISBN 0312102844 (0-312-10284-4)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:Gulliver's Travels remains one of the most popular and widely-studied of literary classics. This edition reprints an authoritative text together with five newly-commissioned essays designed to introduce the text to students from a variety of contemporary critical perspectives. [via]
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0312256922 (0-312-25692-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Hobbitby J.R.R. Tolkien, David Wenzel, Charles Dixon, Sean DemingISBN 0345445600 (0-345-44560-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit'Book summary:Poor Bilbo Baggins! An unassuming and rather plump hobbit (as most of these small, furry- footed people tend to be ), Baggins finds himself unwittingly drawn into adventure by a wizard named Gandalf and 13 dwarves bound for the Lonely Mountain, where a dragon named Smaug hordes a stolen treasure. Before he knows what is happening, Baggins finds himself on the road to danger. Wizards, dwarves and dragons may seem the stuff of children's fairy tales, but The Hobbit is in a class of its own--light-hearted enough for younger readers, yet with a dark edge guaranteed to intrigue an older audience. In the best tradition of the archetypal hero's quest, Bilbo Baggins sets out on his fateful journey a callow, untested soul and returns--tempered by hardship, danger and loss--a better man--er, hobbit.
This book is the predecessor to Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, and though that trilogy can be thoroughly enjoyed without first reading The Hobbit, much that happens in the later novels is foreshadowed here. A word of caution, however: as Bilbo discovers early on, travel and adventure are addictive things; embark on this journey to the Lonely Mountain with Tolkien's reluctant hero, and you might not be able to stop there. And the road taken to the distant mountains of Mordor in the ensuing trilogy is an even more perilous one. [via]
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Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Hobbit: ISBN 0345445600 (0-345-44560-0)
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The Hobbit or There and Back Againby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345339681 (0-345-33968-1)
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary OliverISBN 0375756876 (0-375-75687-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, "lives caught in the common fire of history." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition uses the definitive text as prepared for The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne; this is the Approved Edition of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association). It includes newly commissioned notes on the text. [via]
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I Heard the Owl Call My Nameby Margaret CravenISBN 037010935X (0-370-10935-X)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde, Charles Osborne, Barry HumphriesISBN 0312261772 (0-312-26177-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. This book includes "Lady Windermere's Fan", "Salome", "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", "A Florentine Tragedy" and "The Importance of Being Earnest", which appears in full with the 'Grigsby' scene which originally made up the fourth act. [via]
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequencesby Truman CapoteISBN 0375507906 (0-375-50790-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences'Book summary:"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks. [via]
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The Island of the Mightyby Evangeline WaltonISBN 0345279670 (0-345-27967-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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J.R.R. Tolkienby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345340426 (0-345-34042-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.R.R. Tolkien'Book summary:Four book set includes the Hobbit and Complete Lord of the Rings; the Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of The King. [via]
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James Joyce's Dublinersby James Joyce, Bernard McGinley, John Wyse JacksonISBN 0312117795 (0-312-11779-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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King Learby Claire McEachernISBN 0321107225 (0-321-10722-5)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, King Lear, edited by Claire McEachern, presents the play along with a critical introduction and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare. [via]
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King Learby William Shakespeare, Philip EdwardsISBN 0333155882 (0-333-15588-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Lafcadio's Adventuresby Andre Gide, Dorothy BussyISBN 0375713387 (0-375-71338-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lafcadio's Adventures'Book summary:Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate André Gides Lafcadios Adventures is a brilliantly sly satire and one of the clearest articulations of his greatest theme: the unmotivated crime.
When Lafcadio Wluiki, a street-smart nineteen-year-old in 1890s Paris, learns that hes heir to an ailing French noblemans fortune, hes seized by wanderlust. Traveling through Rome in expensive new threads, he becomes entangled in a Church extortion scandal involving an imprisoned Pope, a skittish purveyor of graveyard statuary, an atheist-turned-believer on the edge of insolvency, and all manner of wastrels, swindlers, aristocrats, adventurers, and pickpockets. With characteristic irony, Gide contrives a hilarious detective farce whereby the wrong man is apprehended, while the charmingly perverse Lafcadioone of the most original creations in all modern fictiongoes free. [via]More editions of Lafcadio's Adventures:
Little Menby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0316031046 (0-316-03104-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Men'Book summary:Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place. [via]
Little Men Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boysby Louisa May Alcott, Ann M. Magagna, Louis JambourISBN 0316030945 (0-316-03094-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Longman Anthology Of Drama And Theater: A Global Perspectiveby Michael L. Greenwald, Roger Schultz, Roberto Dario PomoISBN 0321291387 (0-321-29138-7)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Longman Anthology Of Drama And Theater: A Global Perspective'Book summary:The Longman Anthology of Drama and Theatre is a fully-integrated text/anthology of drama with a global emphasis. Divided into two parts: Part One covers the origins of drama: genres, conventions, styles and descriptions of roles; and Part Two is a six chapter anthology of plays, including plays from around the world with a solid core of western plays. Each chapter in Part Two includes visuals, maps, timelines, biographical and contextual headnotes, and an overview of the history and conventions of each period that help readers gain a better understanding of the drama and theater being presented. [via]
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The Longman Anthology Of Drama And Theater: A Global Perspectiveby Longman, Michael L. Greenwald, Roger Schultz, Roberto Dario PomoISBN 0321088980 (0-321-08898-0)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, William C. CarrollISBN 0312144547 (0-312-14454-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:This teaching edition of Shakespeare's Macbeth reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by six sets of primary documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's work within that culture. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, excerpts from King James's writings on politics, contemporary writings on the nature of kingship and tyrannicide, Puritan and Catholic tracts, conduct book literature, and contemporary witchcraft pamphlets. [via]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Joe GoresISBN 0345327144 (0-345-32714-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Skiles Howard, Gail Kern PasterISBN 0312166214 (0-312-16621-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:This edition of Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of primary documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeares work within that culture. The texts, including facsimiles of period documents, conduct literature, county records, reports of court entertainments, and Queen Elizabeths speeches, contextualize the plays treatment of popular and royal festivity, communities of women (including Amazons, gossips, and nuns), marriage expectations, and the supernatural. Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an intelligent and engaging general introduction, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an extensive bibliography.[via]More editions of A Midsummer Night's Dream:
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Mythologiesby R. BarthesISBN 0374521506 (0-374-52150-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Newlywedsby Elizabeth BevarlyISBN 0373613938 (0-373-61393-8)
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Known more for her work ethic than for her romantic history, FBI agent Bridget Logan landed an assignment that involved issues too close to home-and a "husband" as part of the sting. If Agent Samuel Jones weren't so sexy, Bridget would have had no problem handling this case. But he was, and for the first time in her career, Bridget had trouble keeping a cool head under fire. A lot was at stake, though, and Bridget was determined to solve this case and move on, no harm done. But then her "husband" made love to her. . .and suddenly their role as a devoted couple transformed into a passion over which neither had control! [via]
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The Odesby Horace, Kenneth QuinnISBN 0333118766 (0-333-11876-6)
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The Odes of Horaceby David Ferry, Quintus Horatius FlacusISBN 0374525722 (0-374-52572-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odes of Horace'Book summary:David Ferry's The Odes of Horace represents the first truly distinguished translation of the complete odes into the American idiom. The translator has managed to retain the poet's moral tone while purging any taint of sententiousness. How? By recasting the structure of "Carpe Diem," for example, he gives this familiar poem a power one would have not thought possible. Ferry even manages a Latin-English rhyme at the end, by shifting the position of the addressee's name: "Leuconoe-- / Hold on to the day."
Ferry's Horace is always a specific personality, with his own identity, background, and attitude. Yet he is also a conduit of history. Turning to "Delicta maiorum immeritus lues..." (which Ferry straightforwardly calls "To the Romans"), we are plunged into a devastating meditation on the imperium. At this point, of course, it's commonplace to point out similarities between the American empire and that of ancient Rome. But this translation gives us a feeling for just how contemporary Horace really is. The best example would probably be "To Dellius":
Dellius, don't be
It helps to know that the historical Dellius was exiled in Egypt at the time, making those Italian vintages strictly off-limits to him. What's more, he was a double or perhaps triple agent, which gives him an additional Cold War coloration. In any case, the allusiveness of the odes--and the taut, bone-dry English of Ferry's translation--should gain Horace a legion or so of new readers. --Mark Rudman [via]
Too unrestrainedly joyful in good fortune.
You are going to die.
It doesn't matter at all whether you spend
Your days and nights in sorrow,
Or, on the other hand, in holiday pleasure.
Drinking Falernian wine
Of an excellent vintage year, on the river bank.
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Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset Maugham, Gore VidalISBN 037575315X (0-375-75315-X)
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Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. This classic bildungsroman tells the story of Philip Carey, a sensitive boy born with a clubfoot who is orphaned and raised by a religious aunt and uncle. Philip yearns for adventure, and at eighteen leaves home, eventually pursuing a career as an artist in Paris. When he returns to London to study medicine, he meets the androgynous but alluring Mildred and begins a doomed love affair that will change the course of his life. There is no more powerful story of sexual infatuation, of human longing for connection and freedom.
"Here is a novel of the utmost importance," wrote Theodore Dreiser on publication. "It is a beacon of light by which the wanderer may be guided. . . . One feels as though one were sitting before a splendid Shiraz of priceless texture and intricate weave, admiring, feeling, responding sensually to its colors and tones."
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Pilgrim's Progressby Geraldine McCaughrean, Jason CockcroftISBN 0340727543 (0-340-72754-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:John Bunyan's classic story is filled with drama, excitement and adventure. On his journey of a life-time to the City of Gold, Christian meets an extraordinary cast of characters, such as the terrible Giant Despair and the monster Apollyon. Together with Hopeful, his steadfast companion, he survives the snipers and mantraps, the Great Bog, Vanity Fair, Lucre Hill and Castle Doubting. But will he find the courage to cross the final river to the City of Gold and his salvation? The illustrator: Jason Cockcroft is one of Hodder's most talented new illustrators. He has collaborated with Helen Cresswell and Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrating Sophie and the Sea Wolf and Never Let Go respectively. Both titles are published by Hodder Chidren's Books. He is fast gaining recognition within the trade and international markets. [via]
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 034038171X (0-340-38171-X)
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Pilgrims Progressby McCaughreaISBN 0340844108 (0-340-84410-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square Books
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Poems and Fragmentsby Jim Powell, SapphoISBN 0374253935 (0-374-25393-5)
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James Joyce, R.B. KershnerISBN 0312089872 (0-312-08987-2)
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical, Historical, and Cultural Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from contemporary Critical Perspectiveby James Joyce, R.B. KershnerISBN 0312408110 (0-312-40811-0)
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The Prince of Annwnby Evangeline WaltonISBN 0345242335 (0-345-24233-5)
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The Railway ChildrenISBN 0333600177 (0-333-60017-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
Find This BookBook summary:Set in Edwardian England, this book has been a popular story for 90 years. It tells the heartwarming adventures of a resourceful family - mother and her three children: sensible Roberta, the eldest, scientific Peter and dreamy Phyllis. [via]
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Railway Childrenby E. NesbittISBN 0340714972 (0-340-71497-2)
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A Raisin in the Sunby Lorraine HansberryISBN 0375508333 (0-375-50833-3)
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Robert Frosts Poemsby Louis UntermeyerISBN 0312983328 (0-312-98332-8)
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Rose in Bloomby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0316030899 (0-316-03089-9)
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This brilliant work by Alcott is testament to her modernistic attitudes. Life of Rose, the protagonist, her relationships with her male cousins as well as her independence and feminism have been presented here. Rich and rather sheltered, she faces the same peer pressure, temptations and problems with friends and romance. With simple narration and realistic plot, this masterpiece is worth reading.
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Sappho: A Garland The Poems and Fragments of Sapphoby Jim PowellISBN 0374524211 (0-374-52421-1)
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Secret Agentby Joseph ConradISBN 0375752528 (0-375-75252-8)
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detective stories ever written."
Set in late-nineteenth-century London, Joseph Conrad's intense political thriller anticipates the espionage novels of such writers as Graham Greene and John le Carré. It concerns a double agent who is charged with provoking the radical group he has infiltrated into an act of sabotage that will bring about its own destruction. In a marvelously drawn underworld of political and criminal intrigue, Conrad brilliantly explores the confused motives that lie at the heart of terrorism. Extraor-dinarily modern in the ironic view it takes of human affairs, this masterly tale of conspiracy builds to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis called "one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction."
"The Secret Agent is an altogether thrilling 'crime story' . . . a
political novel of a foreign embassy intrigue and its tragic human out-come," said Thomas Mann. And F. R. Leavis deemed it "one of Conrad's supreme masterpieces . . . one of the unquestioned classics of the first order that he added to the English novel." [via]More editions of Secret Agent:
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0375753214 (0-375-75321-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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The Song of Rhiannonby Evangeline WaltonISBN 0345027736 (0-345-02773-6)
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, James Phelan, Gerald GraffISBN 0312197667 (0-312-19766-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Casebookby Arthur PollardISBN 0333215133 (0-333-21513-3)
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The Three Musketeersby Alexandre DumasISBN 0375406573 (0-375-40657-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, Alan Furst, Jacques Le ClercqISBN 0375756744 (0-375-75674-4)
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Ulyssesby James Joyce, Danis RoseISBN 033035230X (0-330-35230-X)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0375753176 (0-375-75317-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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--Robert Louis Stevenson
"The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in the persons of his heroes, was responding to that craving for action, strength and generosity which is a fact in all periods and all places."
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet: Prince Of Denmarkby Constance JordanISBN 0321317297 (0-321-31729-7)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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[via]From Longman's new Cultural Edition series, Hamlet, edited by Constance Jordan, includes the play and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare.
This edition represents Shakespeare's text as it appears in the most authoritative of early editions, the Folio, published in 1623, and it supplies students with useful footnotes to the interpretation of the text. It also includes brief samples of works by Shakespeare's contemporaries in a section entitled Contexts; which will help students understand the historical setting and cultural ideas that helped shape the meaning of Shakespeare's play. By listening to these voices from the past, students can approach the play with some knowledge of why Hamlet asks the questions he does and of why the character himself, the creation of a distant century, also seems so much a part of our own world.
The Longman Cultural Edition series is composed of teaching texts edited by prominent scholars. In addition to the recently published Cultural Editions Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, and Othello, titles in the series for this year include Dickens' Hard Times, Beowulf, and Oscar Wilde'sThe Picture of Dorian Gray.
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, Constance JordanISBN 032114922X (0-321-14922-X)
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Charles SantoreISBN 0345335902 (0-345-33590-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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El profetaby Kahlil Gibran, Mauro ArminoISBN 0375701621 (0-375-70162-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El profeta'Book summary:La obra maestra de Kahlil Gibrán es uno de los más queridos clásicos de nuestra época, un repositorio rico en sabiduría y alegría que ha inspirado a generaciones de lectores. Con poesía frugal y bellamente resonante, El profeta ofrece inolvidables palabras de esperanza y consolación sobre los temas del nacimiento, del amor, del matrimonio, de la muerte y de los otros hitos de la vida.
Desde su publicación hace más de setenta años, El profeta ha sido traducido a más de veinte idiomas y ha dado inspiración a millones de lectores, quienes encuentran en sus palabras la expresión de los más profundos impulsos, la más profunda poesía, del corazón humano. Ilustrados con los dibujos místicos de Gibrán--comparados por Auguste Rodin a los de William Blake--El profeta es un volumen para disfrutar y al cual volver a lo largo de la vida. [via]More editions of El profeta:
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