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After Ovid: New Metamorphosesby Michael Hofmann, James LasdunISBN 0374524785 (0-374-52478-5)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis CarrollISBN 0333722728 (0-333-72272-8)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, Jenny ThorneISBN 0361028008 (0-361-02800-8)
Hardcover, Purnell, Alice Kelly
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 0370109279 (0-370-10927-9)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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The Analectsby Arthur Waley, ConfuciusISBN 0375412042 (0-375-41204-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Confucius is one of the most humane, rational, and lucid of moral teachers, concerned not with arcane metaphysics but with practical issues of life and conduct. What is virtue? What sort of life is most conducive to happiness? How should the state be ruled? What is the proper relationship between human beings and their environment?
In this classic translation of The Analects by Arthur Waley, the questions Confucius addressed two and a half millennia ago remain as relevant as ever. [via]More editions of The Analects:
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The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translationby Confucius, Roger T. Ames, Henry RosemontISBN 0345434072 (0-345-43407-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation'Book summary:There are more translations of Confucius' Analects than you can shake a stick at, but until now none have plumbed the depths of Confucius' thinking with such a keen sensitivity to philosophical and linguistic underpinnings. Following up on his groundbreaking work with David Hall in Thinking Through Confucius, Roger Ames has teamed up with Henry Rosemont to put theory into practice, portraying Confucius in light of his communitarian leanings. In a translation that comes off as surprisingly relaxed and colloquial, gone are the adherence to strict rules of propriety and righteous moralizing. Confucius has long been the victim of a certain unwitting Christianization, having been interpreted through the lens of Western philosophical assumptions. Ames and Rosemont scale away these assumptions, revealing a flexible and subtle thinker whose ideas of how to live well in a harmonious community have much to offer a fragmented society tied to reductive atomism and the exclusive exaltation of the individual. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Analects of Confucius : A Philosophical Translationby Roger T. Ames, Henry RosemontISBN 0345401549 (0-345-40154-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Ancient Engineersby Lyon Sprague De CampISBN 0345482875 (0-345-48287-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ancient Engineers'Book summary:A reasonably scholarly but nonetheless accessible history of the great engineering feats of the human race up to the Renaissance, including a great chapter on Oriental architecture, a topic often neglected by such surveys. [via]
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Ancient Inventionsby Nick Thorpe, Peter JamesISBN 0345401026 (0-345-40102-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Inventions'Book summary:From Greek steam engines to Roman fire engines . . . Aztec chewing gum to Etruscan false teeth . . . earthquake detectors in China to electric batteries in Iraq . . . stone-age brain surgery to middle-age hand grenades . . . here's a lively and fascinating look at the genuine wonders of the past. [via]
Arnold Schoenberg's Journeyby Allen ShawnISBN 0374105901 (0-374-10590-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Asterix in Britainby GoscinnyISBN 0340172215 (0-340-17221-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Avernoby Louise GlnckISBN 0374530742 (0-374-53074-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Averno'Book summary:[via]Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glücks tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time resisting their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without conventional resoltution or consolation, no less ravishing for being savage, grief-stricken. What Averno provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring present.Averno is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry. -
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
beneath its surface. That is no good place.More editions of Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition:
Best of H.P. Lovecraftby H. P. Lovecraft, Robert BlochISBN 0345350804 (0-345-35080-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Book of Musicby Gill RowleyISBN 0356055795 (0-356-05579-5)
Hardcover, Macdonald Educational
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Byzantine Worldby Joan M. HusseyISBN 0313231486 (0-313-23148-6)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Cicero : The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politicianby Anthony EverittISBN 0375507469 (0-375-50746-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cicero : The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician'Book summary:All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.
John Adams
He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his somewhat botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted Mark Antony and was master of the smear campaign, as feared for his wit as he was for exposing his opponents sexual peccadilloes. Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation but also a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Romes most feared politician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all times. Machiavelli, Queen Elizabeth, John Adams and Winston Churchill all studied his example. No man has loomed larger in the political history of mankind.
In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt plunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancient Rome in its most glorious heyday. Accessible to us through his legendary speeches but also through an unrivaled collection of unguarded letters to his close friend Atticus, Cicero comes to life in these pages as a witty and cunning political operator.
Cicero leapt onto the public stage at twenty-six, came of age during Spartacus famous revolt of the gladiators and presided over Roman law and politics for almost half a century. He foiled the legendary Catiline conspiracy, advised Pompey, the victorious general who brought the Middle East under Roman rule, and fought to mobilize the Senate against Caesar. He witnessed the conquest of Gaul, the civil war that followed and Caesars dictatorship and assassination. Cicero was a legendary defender of freedom and a model, later, to French and American revolutionaries who saw themselves as following in his footsteps in their resistance to tyranny.
Anthony Everitts biography paints a caustic picture of Roman politicswhere Senators were endlessly filibustering legislation, walking out, rigging the calendar and exposing one anothers sexual escapades, real or imagined, to discredit their opponents. This was a time before slander and libel laws, and the storiesabout dubious pardons, campaign finance scandals, widespread corruption, buying and rigging votes, wife-swapping, and so onmake the Lewinsky affair and the U.S. Congress seem chaste.
Cicero was a wily political operator. As a lawyer, he knew no equal. Boastful, often incapable of making up his mind, emotional enough to wander through the woods weeping when his beloved daughter died in childbirth, he emerges in these pages as intensely human, yet he was also the most eloquent and astute witness to the last days of Republican Rome.
On Cicero:
He taught us how to think."
Voltaire
I tasted the beauties of language, I breathed the spirit of freedom, and I imbibed from his precepts and examples the public and private sense of a man.
Edward Gibbon
Who was Cicero: a great speaker or a demagogue?
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Classical Greeceby Cecil Maurice BowraISBN 0316326151 (0-316-32615-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Creationby Gore VidalISBN 0375727051 (0-375-72705-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creation'Book summary:In 445 B.C., Cyrus Spitama, the grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, is the Persian ambassador to the city of Athens. He has a rather caustic appreciation of his situation: "I am blind. But I am not deaf. Because of the incompleteness of my misfortune, I was obliged yesterday to listen for nearly six hours to a self-styled historian whose account of what the Athenians like to call 'the Persian Wars' was nonsense of a sort that were I less old and more privileged, I would have risen to my seat at the Odeon and scandalized all Athens by answering him." Having thus dismissed Herodotus, Cyrus then dictates his life story to his nephew, Democritus, with similar disdain for the Greeks--whom we in the modern world have come to view as the progenitors of civilization, but whom Cyrus considers to be bad-smelling rabble.
Of course, Cyrus Spitama speaks with a very modern, ironic voice supplied to him by Gore Vidal--and the political intrigues in which Cyrus finds himself immersed are likewise familiar territory for fans of Vidal's historical fiction. But the narrator's delightfully wicked observations are the icing on a narrative of truly epic scope--out of his desire to understand the origins of the world, Cyrus undertakes journeys to India, where he encounters disciples of the Buddha, and China, where he engages Confucius in philosophical conversation while the great sage fishes by the riverside. Creation offers insights into classical history laced with scintillating wit and narrative brio. [via]
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Desire of the Everlasting Hills : The World Before and after Jesusby Thomas CahillISBN 0375408525 (0-375-40852-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desire of the Everlasting Hills : The World Before and after Jesus'Book summary:Desire of the Everlasting Hills is another present from the pen of Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews. In this third volume of the bestselling Hinges of History series, he knits together history, politics, sociology, and faith with contemporary insights that yield remarkable results.
After painting with broad brush strokes an entertaining picture of the Greek, Jewish, and Roman world, Cahill focuses on Jesus. With illuminating deductions and clever speculation, Jesus is seen though the eyes of his biographers in their Gospel accounts. Each of these authors' lives is reconstructed in such a way that the richness of their writing and their subject matter is wonderfully enhanced.
The section on Paul, detailing how his life and letters shaped the early church, should be required reading for every student of the Bible. From his beginnings in the cosmopolitan city known as Tarsus through his calling, like the patriarchs and prophets before him, he becomes "the perfect vehicle for this moment in the development of the Jesus Movement." His mix of Greek reasoning with rabbinical training casts the stories of the early church into a thoughtful theology. He is seen here as the earliest egalitarian who not only impacted the early church but all of western civilization.
Cahill challenges many traditional religious ideas while also taking on some of the more radical contemporary interpreters of biblical literature. As with the other volumes in this series, the marginal notes are filled with a wealth of interesting information. Combining his own fresh translation of many New Testament highlights with respect and humor, Thomas Cahill's book is for the believer and nonbeliever alike. --Tracy Danz [via]
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The Dictionary of Composers and Their Musicby Gilder and PortISBN 0345280415 (0-345-28041-5)
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Elizabeth KostovaISBN 0316014818 (0-316-01481-8)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:Bram Stoker's classic novel of suspense and horror was a bestseller in Britain when it was published in 1897. A late 20th-century biographer of Stoker has suggested that famed Victorian actor Henry Irving, for whom Stoker worked for many years, was an inspiration for some of Count Dracula's characteristics. [via]
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The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraftby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0345384210 (0-345-38421-0)
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Epitaph of a Small Winnerby Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Susan Sontag, William L. GrossmanISBN 0374521921 (0-374-52192-1)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epitaph of a Small Winner'Book summary:I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who had died and is now writing. So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. Though the grave has given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has not dampened his sense of humor. In the tradition of Laurence Sterns Tristram Shamdy, Epitaph of a Small Winner is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history.[via]More editions of Epitaph of a Small Winner:
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Fellowship of the Ringby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345339703 (0-345-33970-3)
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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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Fire from Heavenby Mary RenaultISBN 0375726829 (0-375-72682-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Susan J. WolfsonISBN 0321399536 (0-321-39953-6)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:This edition of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, presents Mary Shelley's remarkable novel in several provocative and illuminating contexts, cultural, critical and literary. As part of Longman's new Cultural Edition series of novels, Susan Wolfson presents the 1818 version of Mary Shelley's famous novel in its cultural and historical contexts. Like all great works of fiction, Frankenstein gains depth and dimension from its "conversation" with contemporary texts, especially by Shelley's parents, husband, and friends. In addition to the 1818 text, this cultural edition features the introduction to and a sample revision of the 1831 version. A lively introduction to the edition is complemented by a chronology coordinating Shelley's life with key historical events and a speculative calendar of the novel's events in the late eighteenth century. For those interested in reading and critically analyzing literature. [via]
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George FrazerISBN 0333647688 (0-333-64768-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs & Lyrical Poems in the English Languageby Francis Turner PalgraveISBN 0333949536 (0-333-94953-6)
Softcover, Palgrave
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Derick BownISBN 0361031580 (0-361-03158-0)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall of Canada Ltd
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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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Henry Esmondby William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 0330239341 (0-330-23934-1)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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A History of Rome down to the Reign of Constantineby H.H. Scullard, M CaryISBN 0333174402 (0-333-17440-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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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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The Hobbit or There and Back Againby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345339681 (0-345-33968-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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J.R.R. Tolkienby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345340426 (0-345-34042-6)
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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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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Susan J. Wolfson, Claudia L. JohnsonISBN 0321105079 (0-321-10507-9)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Les Miserablesby Victor Hugo, Charles E. Wilbour, Peter WashingtonISBN 0375403175 (0-375-40317-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is Les Misérables (1862). In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjeana man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective JavertHugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
Les Misérables is at once a tense thriller that contains one of the most compelling chase scenes in all literature, an epic portrayal of the nineteenth-century French citizenry, and a vital dramahighly particularized and poetic in its rendition but universal in its implicationsof the redemption of one human being. [via]More editions of Les Miserables:
Life and Leisure in Ancient Romeby J.P.V.D. BalsdonISBN 0370004442 (0-370-00444-2)
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Memoirs of Hadrianby Marguerite YourcenarISBN 0374207283 (0-374-20728-3)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrianby Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace FrickISBN 0374529264 (0-374-52926-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Christopher ParryISBN 0333176553 (0-333-17655-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The 'merchant Of Venice: Longman Culturalby Lawrence DansonISBN 0321164199 (0-321-16419-9)
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Nodame Cantabileby David Walsh, TOMOKO NINOMIYA, Eriko WalshISBN 0345481720 (0-345-48172-0)
Softcover, Del Rey
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Nodame Cantabile 2by TOMOKO NINOMIYAISBN 0345481739 (0-345-48173-9)
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Theres a new kid in town, and Nodame had better be on guard. Her new rival plays timpani like a dreamand has the hots for Nodames crush, Shinichi Chiaki. Plus, a wretched old man has his eyes (and hands) on Nodame. Its a lot to handle, for a girl who has trouble just keeping her room clean. . . .
Shinichi has his own problems. A famous conductor starts a new orchestra at school, and Shinichi finally gets his chance to conduct. But he soon discovers theres more to the craft than just following notes on a page. Could this hard lesson unexpectedly turn his life around and change his destiny? Take a look into Nodames world and find out! [via]More editions of Nodame Cantabile 2:
Nodame Cantabile 3by David Walsh, TOMOKO NINOMIYA, Eriko WalshISBN 0345481747 (0-345-48174-7)
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Nodame Cantabile 4by TOMOKO NINOMIYA, David Walsh, Eriko WalshISBN 0345482417 (0-345-48241-7)
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Milch may be down, but hes definitely not out. In fact, hes back to take (or is it to force?) the gang to participate in the Nagano Music Festival. In preparation for the festival, the students go to a band camp where they do much more than just play music. Chiaki confronts his fear of the ocean; Mine spends his time getting a tan worth singing about; and Nodame the orangutan, after the humiliation of getting kicked out of a master class, gets set to prove that she can really play the piano. There are plenty of high jinksand nobody gets away unscathed.
Plus, theres a hilarious extra story that takes us back to Nodames childhood, as she drives her piano teacher insane with bad jokes and month-old sandwiches. With Nodame, expect the unexpected from beginning to end! [via]More editions of Nodame Cantabile 4:
Nodame Cantabile 5by David Walsh, TOMOKO NINOMIYA, Eriko WalshISBN 0345482697 (0-345-48269-7)
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Nodame Cantabile 6by TOMOKO NINOMIYA, Eriko WalshISBN 0345483685 (0-345-48368-5)
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Nodame Cantabile 7by TOMOKO NINOMIYA, Eriko WalshISBN 0345483693 (0-345-48369-3)
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Nodame Cantabile 8by TOMOKO NINOMIYA, David Walsh, Eriko WalshISBN 0345485319 (0-345-48531-9)
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Its showtime for Shinichis new Rising Star Orchestra. Renowned critics and famous musicians have gathered to see the debut performance. Meanwhile, Nodame is playing hypnotist on Shinichi, trying to cure him of his fear of flying. After all, she wants her true love to be able to perform abroad. But will the concert take Shinichis career to the next level? And if Nodame succeeds in freeing Shinichi of his panic attacks, will she be left behind? Its anybodys guess in this symphony of conflicted decisions, crushes, and pianos! [via]More editions of Nodame Cantabile 8:
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Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0321427130 (0-321-42713-0)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Paradise Lost. Book 10;by John Milton, C.A. Patrides, E. A. J. HonigmannISBN 0333019458 (0-333-01945-8)
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0375751513 (0-375-75151-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Pilgrim's Progressby Geraldine McCaughrean, Jason CockcroftISBN 0340727543 (0-340-72754-3)
Softcover, Hodder & Stoughton Canada
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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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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pilgrims Progress'Book summary:[via]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? This remarkable retelling brings this classic story to life for a whole new generation of readers, and is the winnder of the Blue Peter Book Awards.More editions of Pilgrims Progress:
Plainwaterby Anne CarsonISBN 0375708421 (0-375-70842-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Pontius Pilateby Ann WroeISBN 0375503056 (0-375-50305-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pontius Pilate'Book summary:Pontius Pilate arrived in Judaea in the year 26, sent to collect taxes and oversee the firm establishment of Roman law. His ten-year term was a time of relative peace in this fractious new outpost of the Roman Empire, where violence was not uncommon. He was not loved and not quite feared, and might have vanished into obscurity had he not come to preside, with some reluctance, over the most famous trial in history.In this brilliant biography, a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize and a masterpiece of scholarship and imagination, Ann Wroe brings Pilate and his world to life. Working from classical sources, she reconstructs his origins and upbringing, his career in the military and life in Rome, his confrontation with Christ, and his long journey home. We catch glimpses of him pacing the marble floors in Caesarea, sharpening his stylus, getting dressed shortly before sunrise on the day that would seal his place in history. What were the pressures on Pilate that day? What did he really think of Jesus? Pontius Pilate lets us see Christ's trial for the first time, in all its confusion, from the point of view of his executioner. Pontius Pilate is a historical figure, like Cleopatra and Alexander, who has been endlessly mythologized through the ages. For some he is a saint, for others the embodiment of human weakness, an archetypal politician willing to sacrifice one man for the sake of stability. Each generation has pressed onto Pilate the imprint of its anxieties and its faith. He has haunted-and continues to haunt-our imagination. From the Evangelists and the Copts (for whom he was a saint, martyred himself on the Cross) to more recent philosophers, artists, novelists, and politicians, Pilate has been resurrected in different guises for two thousand years. Ann Wroe brings man and myth to life in a book that expands the possibilities of the biographical form and deepens our understanding of the mysteries of faith. [via]
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The Praise Singerby Mary RenaultISBN 0375714200 (0-375-71420-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, G. C. RosserISBN 0340076151 (0-340-07615-1)
Hardcover, University of London P.
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Rip Van Winkleby John Howe, Washington Irving, Irving WashingtonISBN 0316375780 (0-316-37578-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories: Library Editionby Washington Irving, John HoweISBN 0316375845 (0-316-37584-5)
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The Road to Delphi: Scenes from the History of Oraclesby Michael WoodISBN 0374526109 (0-374-52610-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road to Delphi: Scenes from the History of Oracles'Book summary:An erudite, eloquent, and wide-ranging examination of oracles by one of our most creative literary critics[via]
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, cities, and states, individuals have consulted oracles in time of need. In this fascinating exploration of the history and enduring popularity of oracles, Michael Wood examines how they are interpreted and why.
The inherent ambiguity of many oracular pronouncements and the ingenuity and tendentiousness of many readings of them form the basis for Woods analyses of oracles, both real and imagined. Using examples from actual oracles at Delphi, Dodona, and in pre-Hispanic America to fictionalbut influentialoracles in literature from Oedipus to Macbeth, Wood combines storytelling and commentary to provide an entertaining and concise account of humanitys persistent faith in signs. He also looks at later instances of oracles, arguing that consultations have evolved in many ways over the years, and that echoes and survivals of old practices in modern literature and popular culturein the works of Kafka and in the film The Matrix, as well as in astrology columnscontinue to exert an important influence over human civilization.
Lively, engaging, and remarkably revealing, The Road to Delphi shows an ancient art at work in many times and places, and invites us to think again about the ways in which we deal with our longing for the certainties we know we cant have.More editions of The Road to Delphi: Scenes from the History of Oracles:
Route 66 A. D. : On the Trail of Ancient Roman Touristsby Tony PerrottetISBN 037550432X (0-375-50432-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, W.G. Ingram, Theodore RedpathISBN 0340090804 (0-340-09080-4)
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Shakespeare's Sonnets - the Problems Solved: A Modern Edition with Prose Versions, Introduction and Notesby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0333147332 (0-333-14733-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Soldier of Areteby Gene WolfeISBN 0312931859 (0-312-93185-9)
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Soldier of the Mistby Gene WolfeISBN 0312937342 (0-312-93734-2)
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Spartanby Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Christine Feddersen-ManfrediISBN 0333908732 (0-333-90873-2)
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Symposium and Phaedrusby Plato, Tom Griffith, R. B. RutherfordISBN 0375411747 (0-375-41174-7)
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It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato's dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. And of the dialogues, the Symposium is the most delightful and accessible, requiring no special knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy or customs. Dramatizing a party in fifth-century B.C. Athens, the deceptively unassuming Symposium introduces--in the guise of convivial after-dinner conversation--profound ideas about the nature of love. In Phaedrus, here published together with the Symposium, Plato discusses the place of eloquence in expounding truth. In both dialogues, Socrates plays the leading role, by turns teasing, arguing, analyzing, joking, inspiring, and cajoling his followers into understanding ideas that have remained central to Western thought through the centuries. [via]More editions of Symposium and Phaedrus:
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Tales of the Cthulhu Mythosby LovecraftISBN 034542204X (0-345-42204-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos'Book summary:"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
--H. P. LOVECRAFT, "Supernatural Horror in Literature"
Howard Phillips Lovecraft forever changed the face of horror, fantasy, and science fiction with a remarkable series of stories as influential as the works of Poe, Tolkien, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. His chilling mythology established a gateway between the known universe and an ancient dimension of otherworldly terror, whose unspeakable denizens and monstrous landscapes--dread Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, the Plateau of Leng, the Mountains of Madness--have earned him a permanent place in the history of the macabre.
In Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, a pantheon of horror and fantasy's finest authors pay tribute to the master of the macabre with a collection of original stories set in the fearsome Lovecraft tradition:
¸ The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: The slumbering monster-gods return to the world of mortals.
¸ Notebook Found in a Deserted House by Robert Bloch: A lone farmboy chronicles his last stand against a hungering backwoods evil.
¸ Cold Print by Ramsey Campbell: An avid reader of forbidden books finds a treasure trove of deadly volumes--available for a bloodcurdling price.
¸ The Freshman by Philip José Farmer: A student of the black arts receives an education in horror at notorious Miskatonic University.
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Tarzan : The Lost Adventuresby Edgar Rice Burroughs, Joe R. LansdaleISBN 0345412737 (0-345-41273-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Once again the roar of Tarzan resounds through Africa as the Lord of the Jungle battles the savage creatures of the wild and helps a beautiful woman search for ancient Ur, lost city of gold. But Tarzan discovers they aren't alone in their quest. For evil follows in his path, and terror awaits him and his fierce lion Jad-bal-ja in Ur, where incredible treasures lie and horrors even more awesome hunger to destroy the mighty hero. [via]More editions of Tarzan : The Lost Adventures:
Tarzan Triumphantby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0345352742 (0-345-35274-2)
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Tarzan Triumphant : And Tarzan and the City of Goldby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0345416414 (0-345-41641-4)
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Mortal danger engulfed Tarzan. A powerful assassin from a wicked regime had teamed up with thieving cutthroats known as shiftas to destroy the ape-man once and for all. He would need every bit of his animal cunning and brute strength to emerge victorious over these murderous fanatics!
TARZAN AND THE CITY OF GOLD
Magnificent in all his primitive savagery, the prisoner Tarzan stood unbowed before the beautiful Nemone, evil queen of the forgotten city of Cathne. Escape seemed futile as the ape-man engaged in a seductive battle of wits with the demonic ruler, who was herself torn between lust and loathing for the bronzed, irresistible hero . . . [via]More editions of Tarzan Triumphant : And Tarzan and the City of Gold:
The Ten Thousandby Michael Curtis FordISBN 0312980329 (0-312-98032-9)
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Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Casebookby Arthur PollardISBN 0333215133 (0-333-21513-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Trial of Socratesby I.F. StoneISBN 0316817589 (0-316-81758-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Ulyssesby James Joyce, Danis RoseISBN 033035230X (0-330-35230-X)
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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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Wagner and His Operasby Stanley SadieISBN 0333790219 (0-333-79021-9)
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War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyISBN 0345472403 (0-345-47240-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War and Peace'Book summary:Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoys genius is seen clearly in the multitude of fully realized and equally memorable characters that populate this massive chronicle. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individuals place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War and Peace in the same category as the Iliad: To read him . . . is to find ones way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane. [via]
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War Musicby Homer, Christopher LogueISBN 0374286485 (0-374-28648-5)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War Music'Book summary:The scene is set for Cold Calls, the fifth and penultimate instalment of Logue's Homer, an ongoing project - a piece of performance-art for the page rather than the stage - which has taken several decades to unfold, and has been described as, 'Less a translation than an adaptation. Less an adaptation in fact, than an original poem of considerable power.' (Derek Mahon) [via]
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0361031637 (0-361-03163-7)
Hardcover, Purnell
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